Under the guidance of Emmy Award-winning artist and educator Nancy Konrardy, young men and women at the Lancaster County Youth Detention Center through Lincoln Arts’ upsArt Arts Access programming have discovered the healing that comes with art.

Under Lincoln Arts’ upstArt Arts Access program, Daniel Martinez and his band Jarana have made waves—and music—through their epic Lincoln Public Schools (LPS) World Music Tour, especially at a recent stop at Humann Elementary.

Funded by a Creative Aging grant from the Nebraska Arts Council, Lincoln Arts’ upstArt program brought a series of mixed-media mosaic classes taught by local artist Carrie Strope to a dozen older adults at Lincoln Aging Partners.